Studying medieval skeletons is a direct way to obtain information about life in medieval societies with very little other information available about the living conditions of ordinary people. In this ...

The world's oldest evidence of Treponema pallidum, the bacterium that causes syphilis and several chronic skin infections, has been found in a 5,500-year-old skeleton buried in a rock shelter in ...

Researchers proved that a misidentified skeleton from the 19 th century actually belongs to infamous outlaw Johannes Bückler, also known as Schinderhannes. Genealogical research found a living ...

Researchers have long considered these cave systems valuable archaeological archives. The latest discovery is part of a series of finds reported by PLOS One that have helped archaeologists piece ...

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